At times, I hate the people in my life (Yes, I turn 25 today and I'm already turning cranky as I get older). When they're not spelling words incorrectly, they are active members of the ignorant population. So I guess I was a little fed up, and hitting reply-all to thread, I send the following:

"That's not funny."

Ok, so maybe it was wrong to state this like a fact since humor is subjective ("I don't find this funny" maybe?).

Idiot responds to thread a little later:

"Jesus, it's just a joke. Nobody said the situation was funny. Lighten up."

Bit of a contradiction, no? If the situation wasn't funny, why make a joke out of it? But if you DO choose to make a joke out of it, why get so bent out of shape when you don't get a haha response? Shouldn't you quietly accept the FAIL attempt at humor and keep it moving? For instance, let's assume someone makes a joke about rape. I find myself chuckling. I share joke with someone else, other person goes "WTF". Should I then proceed to demonize this person for DARING not to laugh? I'm a very un-PC person, but I can understand why not everyone will find something funny.

Here's what bothers me the most about Idiot's response: He knows, from my personal history, that this incident hit too close to home, since I have people in my life who have been victims of domestic violence. So if he was unwilling to accept any reaction but painful guffawing, why send it to me? Even if he chose to have amnesia about my background, the fact I am a female, isn't that enough?

Of course, we then get the following response from one of the included people in the email, or as I like to call him, Idiot #2:

"Hahaha that was funny 'umbrella' .......the rumor is that she gave him an STD.....dam"

Thursday, February 19, 2009

And to all of you withholding your opinions "until you know more facts", FUCK.YOU.

UpdateI initially posted a picture of Rihanna's face, as "allegedly" battered by Chris Brown, in connection with this post. However, I took the picture down after a few minutes solely out of solidarity for a fellow domestic violence victim and the need to respect her privacy. But... if you do need to view the picture, feel free to search it out on your own and see what your silence causes.

Friday, February 13, 2009

because I'm not stupid, and such behavior may elicit a not-so-nice response from me, such as two text messages (The first one being "What the fu"), for then you'll think I'm a b***h, which I'm sooo not. At least not since <complete tired joke by inserting your own day of week>.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Uh, reality check, no it's not. After searching through recent celebrity archives, I present to you: What Chris Brown needs to do to still have a career after “allegedly” beating the sh*t out of Rihanna! Yay lists!

1) Like the esteemed R. Kelly before him did with his hometown of Chicago, get his entire hometown behind him 100%. And that would be…Tappahannock, Virginia?

2) Snag a reality show, preferably on MTV, themed around one of the following: (a) Him preparing for jail (T.I., anyone?), (b) life after jail (Ahem, Foxy Brown), (c) trying to put together his next record after the incident, (d) a stint in Celebrity Rehab (because of course, with incident came the revelation that he is in fact an alcohol/drug/sex/child abuser), or (e) going to The Ivory Coast- no, make that Burma- and building a music school for aspiring rappers.

3) Release album (titled: I stomped her yard...and face) with heavy collaboration from Beyonce, Fergie, T-Pain, Rihanna, Jay-Z, and Will.I.Am.

4) Nothing to do with Chris Brown, but people with periods in their name? Deserve to be shot.

10) And the inevitable… (Didn't I say women love to bring each other down): Have enough idiotic female fans post through social networks enough dumb jokes about Rihanna deserving it because “chick should have seen it coming”. Facebook example: "fan#1 is SMH at Rihanna…guess she should have had her umbrella protecting herself from those blows lol…" followed by twenty other responses under status message ranging from "Your* crazy lol" to "you know she was having his baby that's why he got mad lol". Sigh.

Sunday, February 1, 2009

"...there is one little nuance that the marketers forgot (perhaps intentionally?). Women don't get thin for men. We get thin for other women. We know that men like a few lady lumps. And yet we pursue perfect thinness. Not because it makes us more sexually desirable - often it has the opposite effect -- but because it makes us the Alpha Female. We're competitive like that. "

So there you go. We as women are incorrectly perceived as being neurotic about our body image because of a desire to attract males. Yet it is more accurate to peg these neuroses as mostly coming from our need to keep the sharks at bay: Fellow women who are the first to nitpick, attack, and put down. Need we pretend anymore? Case in point numero two: Jessica Simpson shows up for some performance looking extra padded and then everyone on the internets goes nuts, and by everyone, I mean women. And a few men who are just dumb. Now Jessica Simpson is a bad example because there's so little love where she's concerned, and I think everyone just loves when she falls flat on her face. But still. Her only crime was the outfit:

She looks beautiful, and I'm sure the men would agree. Need she really be crucified? So ladies, lay off.